June 24, 2005
by Scott Logan
Boise-A state lawmaker from northern Idaho is helping lead the local charge for a new currency in the United States.
Representative Phil Hart is pushing what's called Liberty Dollars, supposedly backed by gold and silver bullion, stored at a warehouse in northern Idaho.
Proponents claim their legal, but state officials aren't so sure.
Hart says his role is to get people and merchants to accept the new currency. "When you go out to eat, you can choose restaurant A or B," he said. "And if you want to trade and do commerce with the Liberty Dollar, it's out there for people to do that."
proposed Liberty Dollar
just out of curiosity, I did a Google search for "Mexico currency" which returned the above result.
Even if they are dissimilar, the last time we changed our currency to make it more difficult to "counterfeit", it was within hours when the first counterfeit version came out. Now we have so much ever changing variety of currency, is getting difficult to recognize what is real money and what is fake.
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Actually, the concept of "community currency" isn't new. Ithaca, NY has practiced it for 15 years or so. A lot of other communities have followed Ithaca's lead. That said, none of these communities is advocating for an alternative NATIONAL currency.
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